Today’s Headlines

8:07 AM PST on January 7, 2016

Top ten achievements of US Bicycle Route System in 2015 (Adventure Cycling)
High speed rail unveils construction bids (The Hill)
House Republicans propose a bill that would prevent class action suits against VW (Daily Kos)
Self-driving cars won't kill mass transit (Kill Screen)
The four types of cyclists in the U.S. (CityLab)
ICYMI: Five cyclist-blaming headlines and how to reframe them (Bicycling)
Oakland eases rules on secondary units to help add density (East Bay Express)
Not building enough housing is morally equivalent to tearing down homes (Greater Greater Washington)
Interactive map compares carbon footprints of Bay Area neighborhoods (UC Berkeley)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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